Iranian presidential election, 2009

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Presidential elections will be held in Iran in mid-2009. It will be the 10th presidential elections to be held in the country, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad likely to seek re-election. On 25th February 2008, Mohammad Khatami said that, if Mehdi Karroubi registers as a candidate, he would not participate as a candidate in the election. ^[1]

Contents 1 Potential candidates 1.1 Reformists 1.1.1 Declared candidates 1.1.2 Potential candidates 1.2 Conservatives 1.2.1 Declared candidates 1.2.2 Potential candidates 1.3 Independents 1.4 Ineligible to run 2 References

[edit] Potential candidates

Aside from President Ahmadinejad, the following people are said to be possible candidates in the election:^[2]

[edit] Reformists

[edit] Declared candidates

• Mohammad Reza Aref, First Vice-President of President Khatami

[edit] Potential candidates

• Mehdi Karroubi, Former speaker of Majlis
• Mohammad Khatami, Former President of Iran
• Mohammad Ali Najafi, Member of Tehran City Council and former minister of education
• Hassan Rohani, Former Secretary of National Security Council

[edit] Conservatives

[edit] Declared candidates

[edit] Potential candidates

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Incumbent President
• Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf, Mayor of Tehran ^[3]
• Gholamali Haddad-Adel, Speaker of Majlis

[edit] Independents

[edit] Ineligible to run

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad's main political rival, is ineligible to run in 2009 as he will be over 75.

[edit] References

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